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2021/22 Seamus Coleman

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Bluerover said:
I would love a signed copy of that image of Frank with his arm around Seamus in the dressing room.
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If you send a copy in with the letter I'm sure they'll be pretty obliging but you might have to wait till the season restarts. My lad wrote to the club a few years back and got a signed team photo plus quite a few individual player signed photos but they were probably pics they keep a stock of for such occasions.

If you're ever over this way it's well worth taking the kids to Finch Farm as the players leave training. Nearly every one of them stops for a photo and to sign an autograph.
 
SJB said:
If you send a copy in with the letter I'm sure they'll be pretty obliging but you might have to wait till the season restarts. My lad wrote to the club a few years back and got a signed team photo plus quite a few individual player signed photos but they were probably pics they keep a stock of for such occasions.

If you're ever over this way it's well worth taking the kids to Finch Farm as the players leave training. Nearly every one of them stops for a photo and to sign an autograph.
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Cheers mate. We have just the one daughter, now nearly 25, but the three of us went to quite a few matches from the noughties up to 2016. Sadly we were hit with ill health from early 2017 (my mother) and Mrs BR from mid- 2018 - then Covid stopped travel.

My Ma passed peacefully in Feb 2021, and DG Mrs BR has fully recovered and is now back at work.

We used to stand at the barriers in the car park at the Park End and got plenty of photos and autographs. Do the players still do this or are they straight on the team buses to and from FF? We brought three of Miss BR's cousins with us on one trip and they are still Blues ten years later!!

I look forward to going again....maybe next season.

I am a veteran of going on the overnight B&I ferries in the 80s and meeting the great players in the Winslow after matches - so down to earth. I remember buying Reidy and his Dad pints after some game. His Dad was a fanatical Irish fan although born in Liverpool. He was sorry that Peter didn't declare for Ireland !!
 

Bluerover said:
Cheers mate. We have just the one daughter, now nearly 25, but the three of us went to quite a few matches from the noughties up to 2016. Sadly we were hit with ill health from early 2017 (my mother) and Mrs BR from mid- 2018 - then Covid stopped travel.

My Ma passed peacefully in Feb 2021, and DG Mrs BR has fully recovered and is now back at work.

We used to stand at the barriers in the car park at the Park End and got plenty of photos and autographs. Do the players still do this or are they straight on the team buses to and from FF? We brought three of Miss BR's cousins with us on one trip and they are still Blues ten years later!!

I look forward to going again....maybe next season.

I am a veteran of going on the overnight B&I ferries in the 80s and meeting the great players in the Winslow after matches - so down to earth. I remember buying Reidy and his Dad pints after some game. His Dad was a fanatical Irish fan although born in Liverpool. He was sorry that Peter didn't declare for Ireland !!
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All on the coach from FF to Goodison these days. Great story about Peter Reid and his dad... when players were more relatable to fans eh.
 
Bluerover said:
Cheers mate. We have just the one daughter, now nearly 25, but the three of us went to quite a few matches from the noughties up to 2016. Sadly we were hit with ill health from early 2017 (my mother) and Mrs BR from mid- 2018 - then Covid stopped travel.

My Ma passed peacefully in Feb 2021, and DG Mrs BR has fully recovered and is now back at work.

We used to stand at the barriers in the car park at the Park End and got plenty of photos and autographs. Do the players still do this or are they straight on the team buses to and from FF? We brought three of Miss BR's cousins with us on one trip and they are still Blues ten years later!!

I look forward to going again....maybe next season.

I am a veteran of going on the overnight B&I ferries in the 80s and meeting the great players in the Winslow after matches - so down to earth. I remember buying Reidy and his Dad pints after some game. His Dad was a fanatical Irish fan although born in Liverpool. He was sorry that Peter didn't declare for Ireland !!
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loved that B&I ferry, I remember the first time we took it in the late 80's the captain let myself (prob abut 10 at the time) and my dad stay up on the bridge as we sailed up the Mersey.
I'd love to somehow recreate that trip with my son when BMD is finished!
 
Ruairi77 said:
loved that B&I ferry, I remember the first time we took it in the late 80's the captain let myself (prob abut 10 at the time) and my dad stay up on the bridge as we sailed up the Mersey.
I'd love to somehow recreate that trip with my son when BMD is finished!
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The drill for the old Dublin ESC was

9pm Meet for a few quick pints in Keating's Store Street
Down to the North Wall for 10.15 pm ferry
Pints and sing song until bar closed at 1 a.m.
Grab a gew hours wherever you could - they usually wouldn't let us sleep in the bar so usually a bench in the cafe - I remember the light brown colour of the plastic covering - still comfortable enough
7.30 a.m. arrive in Liverpool and get free shuttle to Lime Street. Get breakfast in some greasy spoon and wait for the shops to open.
Do shopping - I always had a list from my sister who had young kids, and there was no Mothercare in Dublin back then - a bit embarrassing but....
Head to the Devonshire Pub for a few pints - opened at 11.30 a.m.
Kitty, the landlady would mind our bags in a back room.
Down to GP to get a programme, then pay £1.90 cash to get into the Street End.
After the match pints in Winslow, then Devonshire, then share taxis back to centre.
A few more pints in the Midland waiting for the shuttle bus back to the Ferry
10.15 pm depart and as above pints until 1a.m.
7.30 am arrive Dublin
As a good young lad I used to go with my best mate (RIP Tommy) to early Mass in the Pro Cathedral and my dear Ma would meet us afterwards and bring us home - Tommy lived three doors away.

Those were the days. I think a return ferry ticket was about IR£15. Today we fly and stay in a hotel. Total costs for a trip for the three of us is around €1,000 !! that includes meals and shopping.

The Leinster - this was my favourite as it was the most stable
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i remember going to a home match in January 81 on the old Munster. One of the crew who had been travelling the route for 11 years said it was the worst storm he had sailed in. It was 1-1 until Arsenal grabbed a winner right at the death. Eamonn O'Keeffe scored for us.

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Bluerover said:
The drill for the old Dublin ESC was

9pm Meet for a few quick pints in Keating's Store Street
Down to the North Wall for 10.15 pm ferry
Pints and sing song until bar closed at 1 a.m.
Grab a gew hours wherever you could - they usually wouldn't let us sleep in the bar so usually a bench in the cafe - I remember the light brown colour of the plastic covering - still comfortable enough
7.30 a.m. arrive in Liverpool and get free shuttle to Lime Street. Get breakfast in some greasy spoon and wait for the shops to open.
Do shopping - I always had a list from my sister who had young kids, and there was no Mothercare in Dublin back then - a bit embarrassing but....
Head to the Devonshire Pub for a few pints - opened at 11.30 a.m.
Kitty, the landlady would mind our bags in a back room.
Down to GP to get a programme, then pay £1.90 cash to get into the Street End.
After the match pints in Winslow, then Devonshire, then share taxis back to centre.
A few more pints in the Midland waiting for the shuttle bus back to the Ferry
10.15 pm depart and as above pints until 1a.m.
7.30 am arrive Dublin
As a good young lad I used to go with my best mate (RIP Tommy) to early Mass in the Pro Cathedral and my dear Ma would meet us afterwards and bring us home - Tommy lived three doors away.

Those were the days. I think a return ferry ticket was about IR£15. Today we fly and stay in a hotel. Total costs for a trip for the three of us is around €1,000 !! that includes meals and shopping.
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Jaysus, that's some great recollection BR!!

(also my other great love beat Rovers 1-0 on Monday night!!)
 

Ruairi77 said:
Jaysus, that's some great recollection BR!!

(also my other great love beat Rovers 1-0 on Monday night!!)
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I have a soft spot for Drogheda - I went to two friendlies, one in the late 80s, as a student by train. I was fluthered and have a vague memory of the match. the other arounf 1996 -a midweek night game - I thin we had no games that weekend?
 
Bluerover said:
I have a soft spot for Drogheda - I went to two friendlies, one in the late 80s, as a student by train. I was fluthered and have a vague memory of the match. the other arounf 1996 -a midweek night game - I thin we had no games that weekend?
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Yea, The first time I ever went to United Park was a friendly between Drogheda united and a First Division XI that featured Reid and Southall. I still have the program signed by Reid.
Was also at that game in the 90's, Amokachi scored a screamer from the edge of the box.
 
Ruairi77 said:
Yea, The first time I ever went to United Park was a friendly between Drogheda united and a First Division XI that featured Reid and Southall. I still have the program signed by Reid.
Was also at that game in the 90's, Amokachi scored a screamer from the edge of the box.
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I was married by then and drove, so a lot clearer memory! I remember there was an Everton Youth team watching in their tarcksuits - I think they had been over playing a friendly(ies).

I also remember the loud chants of "Duncaaan! Duncan Ferguson!"
 

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